Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-01-13
BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE.
ny =. MARION CRAWFORD.
Author ot NJ. lsaacs." "Dr. CIaud!us," &C.

sent me to the two lailes, pulnluk Ihem out |
TO him AT the same time
Yes-uh--by all mesns-uh" replied
his excellsucy with q pleasant smile lie
evidently had no idea of my name, which
was not TO- be wondered at
Il am Lord Cairngorm,' l observed.
"Oh, bysll means" answered the amhas.
ssdor with the same huspitable smile Yes,
-uh-the fact Is | must try and hud out who
they are such lots Of people, you Know
"Oh, ityou Will present me- | Will try |
and find out for yOu,' said | laughiuSly |
uAh, yes-sO kind ot you--Come along"
said my host We threaded the crowd and |
III a few minutes We stood before the two
ladies'.
Iowmintrduce La Cairnsorm," he |
said then, adding quickly TO tue, Come |
and dine to morrow, won't you ~ lie glided
away with his pleasant smile aud disappeared |
In the crowd.
I sat down besides the beautiful girl, con.
scious that the eyes oi the duenus we're upon |
me,
al think we have been very neat meeting |
before" remarked, by way OF opening the |
conversation.
NV companion turned her eyes full upon
me with al air OF inquiry. She evidently
did not recall my face, II she had ever seen
me-
"ResIly, l cannot remember she oO-
served, in a low and musical voice
"W benz
"In the t~st place, you came down from
Berlin by the express, ten days ago was
stopped opposite each other l saw you AZ
the window
eyes we came that way, but l Dc not re
member'--. She hesitated
"S, cundly," l continued, IL was sitting
alone in my garden last summer-near the
| end of uly-do you remember' You must
have wandered in there through the park
you came up to the house aud looked at
me-
"wss that you 2" she asked, in evident
| surprise Then she broke into q laugh. 81
told everybody had seen a ghost, there
had never been any Cairngorms in the place
| since the memory of man. We left next day,
| and never heard that you had come there
indeed did not know the castle belonged
| to you"
| "where Why, with my sunt, where
always stay. She IS your neishoor, since 1t
| iI-beg your pardou-but then your
aunt Lady Biuebel? did not quite
| CATCH
| "Dont be afraid. sac is amazingly deaf
| Yes She Is the TeIiCt OF my beloved uncle,
| the sixteenth or seventeenth Baron Blue
| ball forgot exactly how many Of them
| there have been And l--do you know who
/ am She laughed well knowing that
| did not
| mo" answered frankly. IL have not
the least ides. l asked to be introduced be.
| cause | recognized you. PeThags-perhaps
| YOU are Miss B.ueOall '''
| " Considering that you are 4 ueighbOr, !
| will tell you who ! am, she answered. "SO.
! am OF the tribe OF B.uebe!Is, but my name
| Is Lsmmss and ! have been given to under
stand that was christeued Margaret Being
floral family, they call me Daisy. A dread
fol American man once told me that my
aunt was Bluebel and that l was Hare
bell-with two l's and an e--oecause my hair
We so thick. J warn you, 30 that you may
| avSid making such bad pun
| DO look Ike man who makes puns 4
l asked, being very conscious Of my melan.
| Choly face and sad looks.
Miss Lsmmas eyed me critically.
"No you have a mOurntul temperament
l think / can trust YOU she answered.
4" Do you think you could communicate q
my aunt the fact that yOg are Ca.rngorm
J and neighbOr | Hm sure she would Ike
I leaned towards tue old lady, initiating
my lungs for yell. But Miss Lammas
stopped me.
That is not OF the slightest use" she re.
| marked. You can write II on a bit C
paper. she is utterly deaf"
" have pencil | answered " but
have no paper. Would my caf do, DO you
think ?"
) "Oh, yes y replied Miss Lammas, Will
slscrity " men often do that"
l wrote on my Cun " Miss Lamma,
wishes me to explain that | sm your neigh
Dor, CaIrngorm." Then l held out my arm
before the old lady'- nose. She seemed per
fectly accustomed to the proceeding, put VI
: her glasses, read tie words smiled, nodded
and addressed me in sn uusarthly vote;
I peculiar to people who hear nothing
I II new your grandfather very well,
. she said. Inen she smiled aud nOdded Il
, me again, and to her niece, and relapsed int
: | silence.
o "lt is all right, remarked Miss Lammas
Aunt Bluebell knows she Is deaf snC
r does not say much, Ike the parrot 1O,
9 see, she knew your grandfather How odd
# that we should be neIghbcrs Why Lsve v
= never met before ?'
7 "If you had told me you knew my grand
father when you appeared IN the garden,
should not have been IN the least sur
Q prised," l answered rather ITrelevautIy.
g really thought you were the ghost OF the oil
n fountain. How In the world did you con!
=, there at that hour ?"
- 1--WE were a large party, and We went ou
for walk. Then we thought we should lik
to see what your park was like III the moon
light, aud 50 we trespassed, ! got separa1e'
i from the rest, and came upon you by acc
G ghostly look Of your house, and wOndern
whether anybody would ever come and lIv
there again. 1t looks Ike the castle OF NaC
beth, or a scene from the opera 10 70
know anybody here p
; Hardly soul. Do you
b "NC. Aunt Biuebell said It was our dut
!, to come. 1t is easy for her TO 90 out sh
= does not bear the burden Of the converse
|, ton"
5 81 am sorry you dud it burden" said
: hSball 60 away
A Miss Lammss looked a, me with sudde
8 gravity in her beautiful eyes, and there va
a sort OF hesitation about the lines of her tu
, soft mouth.
. "No," she said at last, quite slmply
v "don't go away. We may ike each other
you stay little longer-and we ought to, bt
= cause we are neighbOTs in the country"
suppose l ought 20 have thought Mis-
Lammss very odd girl. There is, indeeC
> q sort of treemasOnry between people wh
a discover that they live near each other an
! that they ought to have known each othe
before. But there was sort of uneX peCte
u trankness and simplicity in the girls amu
ing manner which would have struck an
n one else as being singular, to say the least
[ | H. 10 me, however, II all seemed naturi
"a enough. / had dreamed OF her face too lon
IL not to be utterly happy when l met her
IL last and could talk 10 her as much as
< pleased. To me, the man OF ill-luck /
a everything, the whole meeting seemed tC
good TO be true. ] ielt again that strang
l sensation of lIghtness which | had exper
enced after had seen her face In the garden
- The great rooms seemed brighter, life SCENE
=, blood ran faster and filled me with ne
A sense OF strength. said to myself tht
"a without this woman / was but an im perleC
Ia being, but that with her could accom- Pills
everything to which / should set my hgnt
Like the great doctor, when ne thought /
had cheated MephislOpheles at last, CJuI
have cried aloud TO the tlseting tnomeu
~ IeTTelte dOch, dW biS' 50 SchOu
ar ARE you always gay % asked, suddel
IN ly. How happy you must be 90
he The days would sometimes seem yeI
st thoughtfully. " Yes, think / find lie vel
ss | nlaa-aDt I talI IL